Souls.

This one is for all of you who do not believe in a God or a higher being of any kind...and Im asking because I am actually curious. Where do you believe your soul came from then? And what do you believe happens to your soul once you die ?

On beyond and back there was this athiest man who was a hardcore drug dealer and gangster type of person, he died and went to hell. He seen the devil face to face and now he is this huge believer and good man.

OK, you don't get what I'm getting at. Their followers all believe their god is the one and only, that their god answers prayers, that their religion is the one true and only religion. You are not all united. Hahaha. That's kind of funny, considering how many religions and gods there are out there.

The monotheist God is the same God in Christianity, Judiism, Islam, Jahovahs witnesses and Mormons....they all are offshoots of the Jewish faith. The same God. So in that sense they are united in a sense. All those faiths start in the same place and believe in the same God. Jesus was a Jew. Christians are basiclly non jewish people who believe in the Jewish God and believe the Lord already came.

There was all sorts of stuff on that site sight, none of which said there was a heaven/hell and that going to the christian church is the right way.

On beyond and back there was this athiest man who was a hardcore drug dealer and gangster type of person, he died and went to hell. He seen the devil face to face and now he is this huge believer and good man.

How did he know he didn't have a dream? I have a lot of dreams and when I wake up I think I've visited hell (think dog shit filling the house), however I don't try to profit off of them or write a book. How did he know it was the devils face? Do you know what the devil looks like? Is this public knowledge? And of course he's NOW a good man because he's a huge believer. *rolls eyes*

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"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." ~ Albert Einstein

On beyond and back there was this athiest man who was a hardcore drug dealer and gangster type of person, he died and went to hell. He seen the devil face to face and now he is this huge believer and good man.

Hmmm... a show where they make money by getting you to watch stuff that you want to be true. That seems completely legit.

There are literally thousands of religions being practiced today. Here are 20 of the most popular, along with an estimate of the number of followers:

Christianity: 2.1 billion

Islam: 1.3 billion

Hinduism: 900 million

Chinese traditional religion: 394 million

Buddhism: 376 million

African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million

Sikhism: 23 million

Juche: 19 million

Spiritism: 15 million

Judaism: 14 million

Baha'i: 7 million

Jainism: 4.2 million

Shinto: 4 million

Cao Dai: 4 million

Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million

Tenrikyo: 2 million

Neo-Paganism: 1 million

Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand

Rastafarianism: 600 thousand

Scientology: 500 thousand

[Source: Encyclopedia Britannica]

If you believe in God, you have chosen to reject Allah, Vishnu, Budda, Waheguru and all of the thousands of other gods that other people worship today. It is quite likely that you rejected these other gods without ever looking into their religions or reading their books. You simply absorbed the dominant faith in your home or in the society you grew up in.

In the same way, the followers of all these other religions have chosen to reject God. You think their gods are imaginary, and they think your God is imaginary.

In other words, each religious person on earth today arbitrarily rejects thousands of gods as imaginary, many of which he/she has never even heard of, and arbitrarily chooses to "believe" in one of them.

The following quote from Stephen F. Roberts sums up the situation very nicely:

A rational person rejects all human gods equally, because all of them are equally imaginary. How do we know that they are imaginary? Simply imagine that one of them is real. If one of these thousands of gods were actually real, then his followers would be experiencing real, undeniable benefits. These benefits would be obvious to everyone. The followers of a true god would pray, and their prayers would be answered. The followers of a true god would therefore live longer, have fewer diseases, have lots more money, etc. There would be thousands of statistical markers surrounding the followers of a true god.

Everyone would notice all of these benefits, and they would gravitate toward this true god. And thus, over the course of several centuries, everyone would be aligned on the one true god. All the other false gods would have fallen by the wayside long ago, and there would be only one religion under the one true god.

When we look at our world today, we see nothing like that. There are two billion Christians AND there are more than one billion Muslims, and their religions are mutually exclusive. There are thousands of other religions. When you analyse any of them, they all show a remarkable similarity -- there is zero evidence that any of these gods exist. That is how we know that they are all imaginary.

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"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." ~ Albert Einstein

You cant just say every experience people had of the afterlife is to profit off of. I mean you can try and dissprove it, give other explanations for it. But there are many many people with these stories.